Friday

North Hunterdon (3-4) at Hillsborough (2-5), 7 p.m.: Throw the records out the window; just make sure the vinyl doesn’t hit anything on the way down. They (the records) mean little in an age where playoff contenders can be 2-5 or 3-4, especially this year as the NJSIAA will invite those with sub 500 records into its tournament. So we can call this a play-in game with both at the cutoff. North could make the North 2 V field and Hillsborough in CJ V. In New Jersey, everybody’s a winner unlike the state just to the west of us where could play 16 games! Hillsborough 27-21.

Hunterdon Central (3-4) at Ridge (7-0), 7 p.m.: Ridge wrote a Pulitzer Prize-like chapter and verse on how to win close games in 2009 when it advanced to the North 2 V title final and won a division title. It is now required reading. Ridge hasn’t needed to refer to that work much this season, ok, maybe a wise glimpse last week at Cranford. How about Central? How about taking that book out and going over it with tooth and comb or nail, or whatever’s handy. Central has lost its last six games by a combined 20 points. This matchup figures to be close; I think Central is due to win one of these nail-biters. Hunterdon Central 33-28.

Montgomery (4-3) at Immaculata (6-1), 7 p.m.: So the Cougars lose their coach Zoran Milich (early morning fall in the Cougars lockerroom at school), then senior back Ryan Boyle (knee injury) during a 17-7 loss to Hillsborough last week. Now they play homecoming guests at Brooks Field for Immaculata. Wonderful. Immaculata 24-6.